THE PHILOLOGIST.

ANNALS OF CRIME about Dale Maple, the first American soldier ever to be convicted of the crime of treason. A detachment of that Company, around 200 strong was transferred to Camp Hale, Colorado, Dec. 5th, 1943. Camp Hale had at that time a couple hundred prisoners of war; Germans, and mostly veterans of the Afrika Korps. The 620th Engineers, like a few other American Army unite, was composed largely of soldiers who knew little or nothing about engineering but had been placed in the outfit because the Army suspected them of being unsympathetic to the war aims of the Allies, and unsuitable for assignment to any jobs. In the company were native Americans, naturalized Americans, and aliens. Tells about the fraternization between the men of the 620th and the German prisoners, two of whom Maple induced to escape with him.